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Allow shard key to be prefix of multikey index

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    • Priority: Icon: Major - P3 Major - P3
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    • Component/s: Sharding
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    • Sharding EMEA
    • Sharding 2019-08-26

      Currently is not possible to use as shard key a prefix of a multikey index.

      For this reason, even if we have as shard key {a:1} and we have already the index {a:1, b:1} that is considered multikey ONLY because the field b is an array, we must have an index on {a:1} or a non multikey index where a is a prefix.

      Allowing to use {a:1, b:1} for sharding will allow to save RAM, space and write overhead.

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            backlog-server-sharding-emea [DO NOT USE] Backlog - Sharding EMEA
            Reporter:
            renato.riccio@mongodb.com Renato Riccio
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